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Article: Chinese Women in Christian Ministry: An Intercultural Study.(Book Review)
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- International Bulletin of Missionary Research
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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Chinese Women in Christian Ministry: An Intercultural Study.
By Mary Keng Mun Chung. New York: Peter Lang, 2005. Pp. xvii, 313. $74.95.
Chinese women in the mid-nineteenth century had a pitifully low status. Foot-binding, female infanticide, concubinage, and illiteracy were commonplace. The vested interests of the Confucian patriarchy were not inclined to raise the status of women. Male Protestant missionaries were not necessarily motivated to upset the gender-based status quo either but, in any event, were absolutely denied access to the female inner quarters. Western church women, both as missionaries' wives and as missionaries in their own right, were ...